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4 March 2015

Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.

8.0 |
The Independent

8.0 |
Spin

Little Broken Hearts is exciting because it explores the darkest corners of betrayal, bad love, and jealousy with enough vitality to propel Jones out of the bloodless purgatory of brunch music
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8.040843

8.0 |
music OMH

The team assembled here have done something quite remarkable, and this new-found partnership between Jones and Burton could perhaps lead to some very fine collaborations on future albums
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8.041721

8.0 |
State

Produced by Brian Barton, tThe importance of his contribution is obvious, as Little Broken Hearts sounds utterly gorgeous
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7.040848

7.0 |
Pop Matters

The entire album plays like a cohesive whole, somehow frayed and fragmented if not left intact
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7.040834

7.0 |
Slant Magazine

By revealing some carefully chosen, deeply personal details and by building elaborate façades for the sake of drama, Jones has crafted her headiest, most complex album to date
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7.040917

7.0 |
Rolling Stone

A brand-rejigging songwriting collab with Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton that both picks up her pace and pumps up her palette
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7.041112

7.0 |
Rave Magazine

By combining her famously soulful voice with new, grittier arrangements and melodies, Jones has added a distinctly different sound to her repertoire and it serves her wel
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7.040661

7.0 |
BBC

Albums about heartbreak certainly aren’t new, but Jones puts a fresh spin on the familiar topic with lovelorn musings that are wistful and carefree, meditative and ebullient
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7.040663

7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound

This is a serious indie pop album. Jones and Burton have created something that should fit in the record collection of any Feist-loving indie kid just as easily as that of those soccer moms she won over years ago
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7.040664

7.0 |
Uncut

This is a bold and engaging evolution. Print edition only

6.040672

6.0 |
Mojo

An intriguing partnership that fails to entirely live up to expectations. Print edition only

6.040662

6.0 |
The Irish Times

There’s a niggling feeling that the envelope has only been tentatively pushed, and with more risks taken this could have been a brilliant collaboration
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